They’re not being trained to be elite troops the way that people mythologize the IDF who somehow managed to miss all of the warnings about October the 7th and can’t tell the difference between a baby and a bomb.

They’re being trained to be the enforcers of apartheid. Racistly motivated government shock troops don’t have to be competent or capable they just have to be cruel and follow orders.

Warhammer being anti AI is very on brand.

There’s definitely violence against the protesters there. The awfulizing and amplification of the issues in Iran are specifically to bolster this administration’s desire to make war there.

Fascism need not always lie but instead selectively reveal pieces of reality and fudge the lines of credulity. There are ways to support Democratic revolutions that don’t involve sending our military in.

The people of Iraq were also very grateful to see Saddam Hussein go but that doesn’t mean that they wanted to lose hundreds of thousands of people to starvation and wanton destruction to satisfy our foreign policy goals.

CBS news is about as reliable as Russia Today. I wonder if we can find any corroborating reports from someone outside the Trump sphere of enshitification.

You know that’s a novel and insightful musing that no one’s ever thought to share before.

It’s brave of you to go on Lemmy and suggest the solution to a Windows problem is to uninstall it.

Factorio, rimworld, stardew valley, and project zomboid are the games I’m likely to be playing at any given time of year since they came out and every time there’s an expansion or update.

These weren’t expensive games to develop, I even played them for years when they weren’t yet finished.

I’m still of the opinion that the best games are the ones that are developed in a way is friendly to the mod community.

Mods literally made MechWarrior mercenaries, Minecraft and GTA5 into Great games rather than merely good ones.

I don’t think copyrights expire anymore they just get acquired by Disney.

Also, If I understand it correctly it’s also called this because caulking requires jamming pitch soaked rope into the joints so it’s still about rope!

Paid : give money for

Payed: nautical term meaning to let out some slack on the rope or to cover the deck in tar/pitch for sealing it

People will lose their jobs to AI in the same way that lumberjacks lose their job to forest fires.